Play

Okay! So I went the play and I got thereby 7 and I stayed until the end of our play which was super funny by the way, but my mom got really angry and made me leave right after ours at like 10 or 10:30 so I wasn't able to take a picture with the cast. But! I hope you will accept the picture I took of the play

Shinedown

Shinedown came out with a new album last year, Amaryllis, which I've just recently started getting into since the I saw them in concert a couple weeks ago. My favorites songs on the album are Bully, I'll Follow You,  and Amaryllis. But really, all of the songs are good. I think it sounds different than their previous albums, in a good way. I really like Brent Smith's (the lead singer) voice. And I also love the lyrics. Especially to Bully. Part of the chorus goes like this: "Make another joke while they hang another rope, so lonely". I just love that line. It's so true, most people will just think it's funny, it's a joke, they justify every mean thing they say to people as if it was a joke even if they actually meant it. But to depressed people it's not just a joke, it hurts more than the bully will ever think it did, and I think this song will reach out to kids and teenagers who are being bullied. And I think it's sending a really good message which is a reason I love it so much. I totally recommend this song and this album and this band, it's pretty amazing.

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

I thought this album was really really good. My favorite tracks were definitely the first and third, Angles and Teardrop. I like it's hip hop and electronic feel and it has a very unique sound and I really enjoy it. I also really like the bass in it, it's pretty cool, it gives it a nice beat. The ITunes visualizer looked pretty awesome with their songs too, it also kept me intrigued. I've never heard anything by Massive Attack before, so I don't know how their other albums are, but I'd like to find out, I thought this album was so good.

The Color Morale

I recently heard the song, Strange Comfort by The Color Morale on the radio and I looked them up when I got home, and I found that I really like this band. They're classified in the genre of Rock, I think they're pretty good. I would recommend it if you like bands sort of like Breaking Benjamin, Five Finger Death Punch, or Fit For a King. But yeah I really like it. It has some 'screamo' in it. But yeah I like it a lot it's really good. Strange Comfort it the song I know most by them and I like the lyrics to the song, it's about being lost in life and how you get used to being lost, how it's a "strange comfort". I'm really big on lyrics so usually if it doesn't have good lyrics I don't like it as much.

Wu-Tang

I didn't like Wu-Tang too much, I'm not really into rap/hip hop. I like A Tribe Called Quest better. Wu-Tang is kind of cool because the band has like 9 members right? I think that's cool because each member brings something new and different which I like, but if I had to choose between A Tribe Called Quest and Wu-Tang I would most definitely pick A Tribe Called Quest. I feel like Tribe is more I don't know kind of funk-y, or jazz-y and I guess I like that better.

Copyright Laws

I've recently re-watched RIP: A Remix Manifesto. It's such a great documentary dealing with copyright laws. I re-watched it because in my English class we're doing a project and we got to choose our topic over anything we're interested in and I decided I was interested in the Copyright Laws in the music industry. So, my project is over how major record labels, and major corporations such as Warner Chappell are restricting the people's creativity and freedom by heavily inhibiting Copyright Laws. Basically I'm going to be writing about my opinions on how the Copyright Laws need to be revised to give people the rights to make mash-ups, to use sampling, and to take from the public domain to create original pieces building off of the past without having to pay a huge sum of money. I'll also be talking about how the world is ruled by money and the human mind is run by making a profit. I'm really excited for this project and to object my opinion!

Nirvana - Nevermind

I love love love this album! It's such a good album. My favorites are Smells like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, and Lithium. My all time favorite song by Nirvana is Lithium. I absolutely love that song. It's sort of funny, I like how it says, "I'm so ugly, but that's okay 'cause are you, broke our mirrors." Haha, I just think that's such a funny, clever and awesome line. In my opinion it's a really legendary album made by Nirvana, I think if you asked people name 1 song by Nirvana they would probably say Smells Like Teen Spirit. This album was the crash between rock and mainstream which I find pretty cool. I think it's an amazing album and I would really like to have it on my IPod.

Rap

I feel like the genre of rap/hip hop is taking over my generation. Almost everyone I know listens to mostly rap. It seems to be a very popular genre, and personally, I don't really understand why. I do not like rap. Some of the old rap is good, but I feel like every rapper now just talks about smoking weed, doing drugs and having sex. I just don't enjoy. Most rap songs have no deeper meaning, at least no meaning that I can pick out. I know a lot of people could say the same thing about my music, my screamo, but I don't know, I just don't see why people like rap. In my opinion rap is going downhill. I mean it's going up in popularity but it's going down in good content. The one nice thing I do like about rap is the beat and bass. I love a good strong bass.

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is pretty good musically. I think the singer is pretty good and the instrumentals are pretty good. They're not really a band I would put on my IPod and listen to albums. My favorite song by them is probably one of the most "mainstream" of them, Evenflow. I think I first heard it on Guitar Hero, the video game. I know my mom used to be in love with them, but me, not so much. I thought the videos were funny, when one of the guys was being a monkey and jumping into the crowd, they seemed to put on a good performance.

Avalanche Tour

On Sunday I'm going to see Shinedown! It's called the Avalanche tour and it's featuring 6 other bands! It's at the Verizon Theater in Grand Praire, I'm really excited! The bands are: Shinedown, Papa Roach, Stone Sour, In This Moment, Hell Highwater, Escape the Fate, and Otherwise. The one I'm probably the most excited for In This Moment, they're one of my favorite bands at the moment and I think it'll be so awesome! My mom is coming with me and my sister, and she does not like this type of music, I think it'll be funny to see her reaction to it. I'm pretty excited for Papa Roach and Shinedown too, but I've never heard of Hell Highwater, Escape the Fate or Otherwise, but I'm assuming they're pretty good if they're touring with these other groups. The tickets were $35, which I think it's pretty cheap since there's going to be 7 bands preforming, so it's like $5 a band! But yeah I'm super excited for this concert, I think it'll be really cool!

Nirvana and Wilco Movies

I didn't really like either of these movies, I thought they were kind of boring (I'm not really a movie person), but out of the two, I liked the Wilco movie better. I liked it more because it was kind of funny, and I liked the people in it, and the story line was pretty cool. The Nirvana unplugged movie was just them playing most of the time and I didn't like it that much, and the band was so unorganized they were like what should play next? Hmm I don't know. Should we play this song as a band or should I do it alone? I just didn't enjoy it very much.

The Band Perry

The Band Perry is releasing a new album, which I think might be good! I've listened to one song that is sooo good, it's called Better Dig Two. It's basically about a woman who loves her husband so much that if he does first or if he falls in love with another woman that she'll kill herself. It's kind of morbid, I like it. I absolutely love Kimberly Perry's voice it's so beautiful and cool sounding. My favorite part is when she says :

"It won't be whiskey, it won't be meth
It'll be your name on my last breath
If divorce or death ever do us part,
The coroner will call it a broken heart"

The rhymes are so clever and they fit so perfectly! Talk about good song writing. I totally recommend this if you listen to country like Carrie Underwood or Lady Antebellum. 


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdCo_QAz_E

N.W.A and Beastie Boys

I did not like NWA. I don't really like rap or hip hop so it's not really my kind of music. I think it was funny how they cussed a lot, and I liked the lyrics when you read them, but I couldn't really understand what they were saying so I just have it. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't good either. But I love the Beastie Boys. I don't know why I like them so much, they're rap-ish but I think they're funny and I enjoy listening to them. I can't figure out why. But my favorite song by then is probably most people's favorite, Fight For Your Right, I love it, it's funny!

The Downtown Fiction

I was exploring music on my pandora when I came across the band, The Downtown Fiction.
I've only heard one song and I've been meaning to look up more, but the song I know is called I Just Wanna Run. The Downtown Fiction is kind of a boy band and I usually do not like boy bands, but for some odd reason I really like this song. I guess I really like the melody of it. For me, it's one of those songs that gets stuck in your head really easily. The singers voice is kind of squeaky, like really high pitched I think after a while of listening to it, It would get really annoying. But for some reason I really like this song. I hope I don't get it stuck in your head, but if I do, don't get mad at me!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWnfx8uRPw

U2 video

I though the U2 video was kind of boring, I think I spaced out during most of it. But I do know that in the first part of the movie at the first concert they opened with a cover of helter skelter, which was okay, obviously not as good as The Beatles, but still pretty good. They also played the song that goes like, I still haven't found what I'm looking for, they played it at what looked kind of like a church and they had a choir song with them, I really liked that one, I thought they sang it really beautifully and the choir was awesome. Those were the only two parts I can really remember but those two parts were really good, so I guess if I watched the whole movie again then maybe it would be good.

Three Days Grace

I've recently started like Three Days Grace, I like their newer album, Transit of Venus. I heard the song Chalk Outline on the radio and I loved it, and everytime I hear it I like it more and more. I like most of the songs on the album, I think it's a really solid album. I like The High Road, Chalk Outline, Misery Loves Company, and Give In To Me. I really love Adam Gonteir's voice, I think it's pretty awesome and kind of (to me) sounds a little punky. I also think they have really good lyrics. For me lyrics mostly just make the song good. If it doesn't have good lyrics then I probably won't like it all that much. If you look up the lyrics to any of the songs I think you'll enjoy them. I think they're a really good band and can play pretty well (obviously not as well as The Beatles, but you can't compare everyone to their awesomeness). They're alternative, they kind of sound like Fall Out Boy or Seether. I really like it, I hope you do too :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKF-wfmNAI

Paul Simon - Graceland

I actually really liked this album. I've never really heard anything by Paul Simon before except for what we've listened to in class and I really liked it. I liked the songs Graceland, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, You Can Call Me Al, and I think maybe Gumboots? I think that's the one that started off with just singing and no instruments. The lyrics were kind of strange, but pretty deep. The instrumentals were different too with the African beats and things. Overall I think it was a really good album and I would definitely listen to it again and again. It was a pretty good album considering that it went to #3 in the National Billboard Charts. It's kind of weird that this followed Hair Metal and was this popular, but it's definitely much better than Hair Metal.

Otep

I've recently found the band Otep, I really only know one song by them, but when I listened to part of the album on Itunes, I really liked it but I couldn't buy it because I didn't have enough money :( The one song I did buy is called Confrontation. I really like it. My favorite line of the song is:

"Its the rich man's war
But its the poor that fight
More capitalist crimes,
More enemies than allies"

It's kind of about the modern age, I think it totally speaks the truth and I like it. It's rock. It's pretty good if you like hardish rock, then I think you'd like it.

Hair Metal and Hip Hop

I kind of sort of like hair metal, only some of it. I don't like all the makeup and the hair and the outfits, it's all kind of over the top and stupid. I like Twisted Sister, some of Van Halen and the really catchy stuff I guess. I personally really like metal, and in my opinion if I heard some of this hair metal on the radio I probably wouldn't categorize it as metal. It's of, I don't know, Girly. I also don't like Hip Hop, it's not my thing. I like the beats of it, they all have really strong beats which I like, but I don't really like rap or anything because I feel like all it does is talk and I'm not really into that.

Evanescence

I'm pretty sure I've already posted about Evanescence but I really like this band, so I'm going to post about it again anyways. When I first started listening to Evanescence I really only liked a few of the most popular songs on their album Fallen, but now I really like mostly all of her stuff. One of my favorite songs is Call Me When You're Sober. I'm just so in love with her voice, like seriously her voice is freaking beautiful. I also really like the song Everybody's Fool, it reminds me of someone, who everyone seems to worship but only because they don't know who she really is. My favorite part of Everybody's Fool that describes this person the best is:

"look here she comes now
bow down and stare in wonder
oh how we love you
no flaws when you're pretending
but now i know she
never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled"

It's just descibes her perfectly, and I know so many people know one person who everyone loves and thinks they're so perfect but you know they're really not, they're just fake. I like Evanescence because I guess I can really relate to a lot of their songs, so I guess I just feel like maybe I'm not so alone? I don't know, but seriously I think Evanescence is an amazing band and is maybe one of my favorites.